Konan, the office street by Shinagawa Station's Konan exit—across the canal lie homes and the plum-and-cherry green belt
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Chome 1 and 2 outside the Konan exit of Shinagawa Station are an office area; across Takahama Canal, chome 3 and 4 are residential, with schools. Along the canal is the Takahama Canal waterfront greenery, planted with plum, cherry, and dogwood trees, with waterside spaces and benches as well.
In 2021, about 94,000 people worked in chome 1 and 2. About 18,000 people in the neighborhood live on the canal side.
Many households living in this neighborhood have children: 17% are under 15, higher than the Minato City average; single-person households make up less than half. Nine out of ten homes are in apartments of 11 stories or higher, and nearly 60% are owner-occupied.
From our street photos, the streetscape ranks 6th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking item for this neighborhood; greenery ranks 11th. Besides the canal greenery, chome 1 also has the roughly 4.3-hectare Shibaura Chuo Park, a City park built on top of the roof of a sewage treatment center.
This neighborhood needs to be looked at as two halves: chome 1 and 2 near the station are a commercial area, with only about 12 and 50 residents per hectare respectively in 2020. Housing is concentrated in chome 3 and 4 on the east side of the canal, with about 308 residents per hectare.
Daily shopping ranks 339th, the lowest-ranking item for this neighborhood; healthcare ranks 247th, and public transit ranks only 168th. The D section of Shibaura Chuo Park is having the treatment facility beneath it rebuilt, with the north half closed from fiscal year 2022 through 2026. The south half will then be closed from fiscal year 2027 through 2031.
In 1872, Shinagawa Station, one of Japan's earliest railway stations, opened on newly reclaimed land off the coast of Takanawa. It was not until 1939 that Konan chome 1 through 4 were fully reclaimed.
For a long time, this area held urban facilities like sewage treatment plants and slaughterhouses, and despite sitting right next to Shinagawa Station, saw almost no foot traffic. After Shinagawa Intercity opened in 1998 and the Shinkansen Shinagawa Station began operating in 2003, the Konan exit area became an office district. In the 2000s, the warehouse and factory sites in chome 3 and 4 were gradually redeveloped into tower apartments.
The Tokyo Metro Namboku Line is being extended about 2.5 kilometers from Shirokane-Takanawa to Shinagawa Station, with construction already underway as of November 2024. The target is to open service in the mid-2030s. The D section of Shibaura Chuo Park is scheduled to fully open in April 2032.
Compared with the 395 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
Hospitals with inpatient beds (2020 data), public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area, high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores. Many Tokyo junior high students attend private schools, so junior high catchments are only a guide.
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